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Network Security: Network Review and Firewalls
Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University, New York schulzrinne@cs.columbia.edu
Columbia University, Fall 2000
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1999-2000, Henning Schulzrinne
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Secure Communications
Alice can send message to Bob; only Bob can read Bob knows for sure that Alice sent it Alice can’t deny she sent the message but the basic communication is insecure:
– wiretapping – switches and routers – redirection – storage – ...
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Security is analog, not binary. . .
there is no perfect security cost of inconvenience vs. cost of breach how long does it have to stay secret? how sophisticated is the adversary? value of information + value of service (DOS) physical security + cryptographic difference: attack from anywhere, automated (“script kiddies”) most problems are not crypto problems wire/fiber-tapping is hard
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Terminology
bad guy: avoid ‘hacker’; Trudy = intruder, impostor secret key: = symmetric = receiver and transmitter share secret key, nobody else public key: = asymmetric = two keys, one public, one private (secret) privacy: protect communications from all but intended recipients
confidentiality $
privacy laws Slide 4
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Dramatis Personae
usually computers: Alice: first participant Bob, Carol, Dave: second, third, fourth participant Eve: evesdropper Mallory, Trudy: malicious active attacker Trent: trusted arbitrator Walter: warden; guarding Alice and Bob in some protocols Peggy: prover Victor: verifier Slide 5
Kaufman Notation
j
concatenation (e.g., ”joe”
j ”secret” = ”joesecret” K fmessage g
encrypted with key
K fmessage gBob
encrypted with public key of Bob
[message ℄Bob
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Network Primer
layer name who e.g., PDU 7 application E-E SMTP message 6 presentation E-E MIME 5 session E-E ? 4 transport E-E TCP packet 3 network router IP packet 2 data link bridge, switch Ethernet frame 1 physical repeater Ethernet over coax bit stream Slide 7
Network Services
(Almost) any layer: error checking: checksum, drop bad packets reliability: retransmission (ARQ, ”ack”) or forward error correction (redundancy)
- rdering: ensure delivery order
multiplexing: several upper-layer entities
! one lower-layer entity (e.g.,: telephony)
inverse multiplexing: spread single message over several channels flow control: avoid overrunning slow receiver congestion control: avoid overrunning slow network encryption, authentication: obviously... Slide 8
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Directory Services
need (network-layer) address to communicate more memorable, different assignment:
– unique identifier – locator – name (administrative, “John Smith”, www.)
directory service: translation between addresses scalability ➠ tree, hiearchy e.g.,: clinton@whitehouse.gov needed for security: public key needs to be secured
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Network Security Layers
Physical layer: blackening Data link layer: wireless Ethernet encryption (802.11 WEP at 11 Mb/s), PPP authentication Network layer: IPsec Transport layer: secure socket layer (TLS, “https:”) Application: email (PGP, S/MIME),
x-over-TLS, HTTP authentication, SHTTP,
Kerberos infrastructure: DNS, routing, resource reservations, ... Slide 10
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Security Approaches
Application security OS security Network infrastructure security Procedural and operational security
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Application Security
application software security (e.g., buffer overruns) path encryption via secure application protocols (ssh) isolating critical applications on single-purpose hosts
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Host/OS Security
OS software integrity (most attacks on non-patched OS) user-level access control (AAA, tokens) block unneeded services (finger, ftp, DNS) path encryption via IPsec device-level access control (MAC, IP, DNS) in servers, routers, Ethernet switches e.g., host firewalling (such as TCP wrappers, IP chains)
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Network Infrastructure Security
service-blocking perimeter (port) device-ID perimeter (IP address) path encryption perimeter path isolation via routers and switches path isolation via separate infrastructure (“air gap”)
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Procedural and Operational Security
policies and education on safe computing practices desktop configuration management proactive probing for vulnerabilities intrusion detection
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Top-level Domains
2 letters: countries 3 letters: independent of geography (except edu, gov, mil)
domain usage example domains (8/00) com business (global) research.att.com 17,050,817 edu U.S. 4 yr colleges cs.columbia.edu 5,673 gov U.S. non-military gov’t whitehouse.gov 730 mil U.S. military arpa.mil
non-profit orgs (global) www.ietf.org 248,489 net network provider nis.nsf.net 2,806,721 us U.S. geographical ietf.cnri.reston.va.us uk United Kingdom cs.ucl.ac.uk 194,686 de Germany fokus.gmd.de 262,708
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Replicated Services
load sharing availability same information? replay: change password to different server
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Packet Switching
circuit switching: fixed-rate, reserved bit stream between parties for duration of
communications (“wire”)
packet switching: chop application messages into packets ( < few kB, with upper
bound): – interleaving from different sources – error recovery on single unit – flexible bandwidth ➠ encryption on messages or packets Slide 18
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Network Components
link: connection between components, including wireless ➠ point-to-point (modem), multiple access (Ethernet) router, switch: forward packets node: router (= intermediate system), host (= end system) clients: access resources and services servers: provide resources and services (may also be client) dumb terminal: no local processing Slide 19
Network Access and Interconnection
NAP national network R R R R Ethernet firewall T3 company point-of-presence (POP) regional network local telephone company phone lines+ node telephone switch PC modem phone company 56kb/s
regional network NAP modem concentrator
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Destinations
interconnect local networks (links) of different technology router:
- 1. get packet from source link, strip link layer header
- 2. find outgoing interface based on destination network address
- 3. find next link-layer address
- 4. wrap in link layer header and send
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Internet Names and Addresses
example
MAC address 8:0:20:72:93:18 flat, permanent IP address 132.151.1.35 topological (mostly) Host name www.ietf.org hierarchical User name clinton@whitehouse.gov multiple host name
DNS;man y toman y !
IP address
ARP;1to1 !
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Tempest
every device is a radio transmitter e.g., TV scanning Europe: find unlicensed TV receivers control zone
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Threats for a Corporate/Campus Network
unauthorized access to hosts (clients, servers) disclosure & modification of network data denial-of-service attacks
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Threats for the Internet/ISP
propagate false routing entries (“black holes”, www.citibank.com
www.mybank.az)
domain name hijacking link flooding configuration changes (SNMP) packet intercept
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Application-Layer Threats
- nly limited ability of network intervention possible
shoulder-surfing rogue applications emailing out confidential files viruses, mail bombs, email attachments, ...
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General Strategies
hardening the OS and applications encrypting sensitive data reduce size of target
- ! disable unneeded services
limit access of attacker to target systems
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Network Infrastructure
border interior edge
Internet enterprise network network infrastructure
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Trust Model
perimeter defense: defines trust zone most attacks are from the inside traveling users: virtual private networks – danger! “extranets” for vendors, suppliers, ... internal hosts may not be managed or under control of network operator defense in depth
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Firewalls
computer between internal (“intranet”) and external network = policy-based packet filtering watch single point rather than every PC limit in/out services, restrict incoming packets can’t prevent people walking out with disks
packet filter: restrict IP addresses (address filtering), ports connection filter: only allow packets belonging to authorized (TCP) connections encrypted tunnel: tunnel = layer same layer inside itself ➠ virtual network: connect intranets across Internet NA(P)T: network address (and port) translator are not firewalls, but can prevent all incoming connections Slide 30
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Network Address Translation
NAT
(10.0.0.3) bob.example.com (10.0.0.2) (216.32.74.51) www.yahoo.com 5678 10.0.0.1/2345 port addr/port 10.0.0.2/2345 −> 216.32.74.51/80 128.59.16.1/5678 −> 216.32.74.51/80 128.59.16.1/5678 <− 216.32.74.51/80 128.59.16.1 10.0.0.1 alice.example.com 216.32.74.51/80 −> 10.0.0.2/2345
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Application Gateway
global net intranet firewall F2 gateway firewall F1 DMZ Ethernet
firewall F x: only to/from gateway may only allow email, file transfer hard to restrict large file transfers
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Key Escrow
key broken into pieces, ’ed need all key pieces ➠ need collusion doesn’t prevent “bad guys” from using other cryptography useful in corporate environment: accidental key loss
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Viruses
trojan horse: looks innocent, does something nasty virus: inserts copy of itself into another program worm: replicates across network trapdoor: undocumented high-priviledge access to program logic bomb: triggered at some time instant or event Carriers:
- nly programs ➠ “Good Times” hoax
but: PostScript is program but: Word is a program
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Virus Prevention
signatures (➠ hash) but: polymorphic virus checksum files securely limit activity (sandboxing) ➠ Java run a non-Windows operating system ...
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IPv4
modified by fragmentation modified by router version header type of service D flags source IP address 0 DF MF fragment offset (x 8) total length (in bytes) header checksum protocol identifier time-to-live destination IP address
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T R C 0 20 bytes identification IP options (if any; <= 40 bytes) data length (x4) (4) preced.
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TCP
U G A C K P S H R
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32-bit sequence number 16-bit source port number 16-bit destination port number 32-bit acknowledgment number (next byte expected) 16-bit urgent pointer 16-bit TCP Checksum
data (if any)
length R S T S Y N F I N 4-bit header reserved
(6 bits) 16-bit window size 20 bytes
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Denial of Service (DOS) Attacks
Source: exploit legitimate behavior + bugs with “strange” packet formats. mailbombing: send auto-generated email to victim smurf: Perp sends ICMP echo (ping) traffic to IP broadcast address (directed broadcast), all of it having a spoofed source address of a victim. Prevention:
disable directed broadcast; source address filtering on egress/ingress; compare source address of a packet against the routing table to ensure the
return path of the packet is through the interface it was received on.
“An ICMP Echo Request destined to an IP broadcast or IP multicast address
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Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
E.g.: Stacheldraht, Trinoo, Tribe Flood Network
compromise victim system, typically via buffer overflow clients (control handlers via TCP), handlers (control agents via TPC or ICMP
ECHO REPLY), agents (send data)
handler-to-agent communication is encrypted handlers instruct agents to start DOS:
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Military Security Model
Access controls: discretionary: owner gives out rights nondiscretionary: policy fixed
security levels: unclassified < confidential < secret < top secret compartments ➠ “need to know” read up is illegal write down is illegal (➠ root can’t write to user!)
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Covert Channels
smuggle information without detection, but with noise – “steganography” timing ➠ system loading (printer) queues create out-of-bounds file: can’t read vs. doesn’t exist error messages related application: additive “noise” in pictures, music, videos for fingerprinting
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Orange Book
military security, linear, documentation/testing
D: none C1: discretionary security (Unix); prevent OS writing C2: ACL, no dirty disks, auditing (e.g., Windows NT 4.0, Solaris 2.6) B1: security labels for users, processes, devices B2: avoid Trojan horse; security level change notification; security kernel; covert channels B3: ACL with exceptions; alarms; secure crashing A1: verified design Slide 43
Legal Issues
Patents:
interesting things are patented (17 years) but some are royalty-free (DES), at least for non-commercial use (IDEA) public key requires license (until 2000) from RSA (4,405,829, issued September
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Export Controls
Modified policy as of Jan. 2000
classically, encryption = munitions book ok, disk not export license: DOD ➠ DOC for export to government no export to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan or Syria technical review for export to non-government “retail products” can now be exported to any end user
- pen source do not need review, but deposit source code
- <64 bit encryption (including DES) mostly o.k. for export (Wassenaar agreement)
USA, Australia, New Zealand, France, and Russia control export import always ok
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